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245 10 a| Noble cows and hybrid zebras :b| essays on animals and history /c| Harriet Ritvo.;

260 a| Charlottesville :b| University of Virginia Press,c| 2010.;

300 a| x, 239 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.;

505 0 a| Sex and the single animal -- Learning from animals : natural history for children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Toward a more peaceable kingdom -- Animal consciousness : some historical perspective -- Plus ça change : antivivisection then and now -- Mad cow mysteries -- Understanding audiences and misunderstanding audiences : some publics for science -- Foreward to Charles Darwin : The variation of animals and plants under domestication -- Race, breed, and myths of origin : Chillingham cattle as ancient Britons -- Possessing Mother Nature : genetic capital in eighteenth-century Britain -- Our animal cousins -- Counting sheep in the English Lake District : rare breeds, local knowledge, and environmental history -- Beasts in the jungle (or wherever).;

520 1 a| "Over the past two decades, Harriet Ritvo has established herself as a leading scholar in animal studies and one of those most responsible for establishing this field as a crucial part of environmental and social history. Her two well-known books The Platypus and the Mermaid and The Animal Estate did much to introduce and illuminate the importance of nonhuman animals to the study of human culture. Hunting and husbandry, as well as pet keeping and zoo going, forge powerful connections between animal lives and those of humans: in fact, animals have helped define what it means to be human. They have also been one of the most reliable measures of humans' disproportionate influence on the environment. From domestication to extinction, the human impact on animal populations has been profound." "In the essays collected in Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras, Ritvo explores our attitudes toward animals, from cruelty to sentimentality to the indifference of pure practicality, and touches on many social and scientific issues, including genetic engineering and an animal protection movement much older than most readers would think (animal advocacy was a cause embraced by many Victorians)." "While Ritvo's writing represents the cutting edge in animal history, it has always been characterized by its grace and accessibility, and these essays originally appeared not only in scholarly journals but also in Grand Street, Daedalus, and the American Scholar. Collected for the first time in a single volume, they reveal an important dimension of human history by looking to the creatures who have always surrounded us."--BOOK JACKET.;

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Noble cows and hybrid zebras : essays on animals and history / Harriet Ritvo.

Author/creator	Ritvo, Harriet, 1946-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Description	x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Human-animal relationships--History. Animal welfare--Public opinion. --History. Animals and history. Animals (Philosophy)--History.

Contents	Sex and the single animal -- Learning from animals : natural history for children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Toward a more peaceable kingdom -- Animal consciousness : some historical perspective -- Plus ça change : antivivisection then and now -- Mad cow mysteries -- Understanding audiences and misunderstanding audiences : some publics for science -- Foreward to Charles Darwin : The variation of animals and plants under domestication -- Race, breed, and myths of origin : Chillingham cattle as ancient Britons -- Possessing Mother Nature : genetic capital in eighteenth-century Britain -- Our animal cousins -- Counting sheep in the English Lake District : rare breeds, local knowledge, and environmental history -- Beasts in the jungle (or wherever).
Review	"Over the past two decades, Harriet Ritvo has established herself as a leading scholar in animal studies and one of those most responsible for establishing this field as a crucial part of environmental and social history. Her two well-known books The Platypus and the Mermaid and The Animal Estate did much to introduce and illuminate the importance of nonhuman animals to the study of human culture. Hunting and husbandry, as well as pet keeping and zoo going, forge powerful connections between animal lives and those of humans: in fact, animals have helped define what it means to be human. They have also been one of the most reliable measures of humans' disproportionate influence on the environment. From domestication to extinction, the human impact on animal populations has been profound." "In the essays collected in Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras, Ritvo explores our attitudes toward animals, from cruelty to sentimentality to the indifference of pure practicality, and touches on many social and scientific issues, including genetic engineering and an animal protection movement much older than most readers would think (animal advocacy was a cause embraced by many Victorians)." "While Ritvo's writing represents the cutting edge in animal history, it has always been characterized by its grace and accessibility, and these essays originally appeared not only in scholarly journals but also in Grand Street, Daedalus, and the American Scholar. Collected for the first time in a single volume, they reveal an important dimension of human history by looking to the creatures who have always surrounded us."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
LCCN	2010020377
ISBN	9780813930602 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	081393060X (cloth : alk. paper)

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